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(...) Yes :) The URL I gave was just an example of the rating forms showing up--it otherwise has nothing to do with the spotlight page (which now has the choice of Brief, All, or Compact display) --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not sure where you're clicking. Here's more explicit what-to-do: 1. First, be on the LUGNET homepage: (URL) From there, observe that there is a box on the left with "Top Stories." At the bottom of this box is a link labeled "More Top (...) (26 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FzGMsA.6nA@lugnet.com... (...) entire (...) come (...) Hmmm...its not seeming to work for me. Bram's URL works, but that only displays the most recent, not the highlighting ones. I even (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's worth more than $.02! :) Great idea! OK, try it now -- click the "More Top Stories" link from the homepage... --Todd (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's not a problem on LUGNET's end. Many people *don't* have this problem. There is a generally-agreed on MIME type for DAT and MPD (see (URL), it's one of the last questions). It *might* be a problem with the way MLCAD registers DAT and MPD (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, try now. Very sorry about that! Yes, it was related to the new homepage. It didn't know how to display FTX pages. I made it forward the request on to the old code, behind the scenes, so it all works transparently just as it did before. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My fault -- yes -- I'll fix. Sorry. --Todd (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I can not load my LUGNET FTX page. This is the address: (URL) something change with the homepage reorg? -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't want to jump to conclusions here, since I'm less experienced at this than Todd, but I think this is what's happening: - User clicks the "DAT" link. This link points to a CGI script on LUGNET, named "ldraw.cgi", which is in charge of (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well. How best to put this? I *know* I agree with Todd in spirit. But we all have opinions, likes and dislikes. While there are no "bad" builders, I think we all would agree that there might be models that we personally like more, and some (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (Cut alot of good stuff Todd wrote) Way to go, Todd! I was going to post something like that, but you beat me to it! I still have some things I want to say, but I'm going to wait untill tomarrow to post them. See you all then! Adrick Tolliver (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A great way to make this easier would be to allow members to view the entire messages in the spotlight and rate them, all on the same page. ie, if I were to view the Spotlight page with &v=a the highlighting forms would come up just like they (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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QUICK TOP STORIES LIST The "Top Stories" listing on the new homepage, (URL) built automatically based on human feedback, and your opinions make a difference! If you are a LUGNET Member, you can help highlight things for this and other lists: (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish) !
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(...) Which is the most important part of LUGnet is to many of us. This may be partly an artifact of the way the web page was, but it's also because the active and healthy newsgroups are the core of the community. Even if that's an overhyped (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, sorry. Yes, they'll work forever as forwarding links. What I meant above was that you won't be able to browse news at www.lugnet.com anymore (not the same way you brows news at news.lugnet.com). And technically, you won't be able to read (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a very large part of it, ya. It also more closely represents what LUGNET is. The news homepage only represents what LUGNET is from a news point of view. --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd & Suz <admin@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:FzBur3.2L1@lugnet.com... (...) Nice. I will use it in conjunction with the original. I like having the "Toy Box" -(Fun things to see and do) up front. A little surprised the mosaic maker was't (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) You know, Todd, you're welcome to come on out to Seattle and hang w/me for awhile. :^D ~Mark (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gaak, is this a double post? delete it if so, sorry... I think that's what I've been up to, sporadically, for the last two years or so... ++Lar (in the UK and festing this weekend, which will add 8 or 9 names on the list of AFOL's I've met in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Now that would rock! A Lugnet Extended Road Trip. Spontaneous Lego-fests everywhere. :) Don't forget lotsa extra batteries, and a good wireless connection. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Gosh, I hope there aren't any groups which you aren't aware of the purpose they are intended to serve (though obviously you would have to do some poking around in the logs to determine for sure whether or (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not a selfish guy Larry, I was thinking of others and making a suggestion at the same time. If I could customise the homepage, I'm sure it'd end up like the old one pretty much - call me conservative (with a small c). Like I said, this is (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Are links to news items on www.lugnet.com going to work forever, or are old news items with URL cross references going to break at some point? (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) some (...) to (...) I'm not following you, I guess. Can you clarify what it is you are wanting? You said "I want behaviour X, and can we have a cookie to give it", I said "here's how to do behaviour X using current system capability with no (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, I have done the same. Whether it is better or not is another issue. I'm not bothered either way though to be honest - I'll be sticking with news. for the time being. My take on the new page is that it is more for new users than existing (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like the news view so I overrode my bookmark that used to point to www... to now point to news... Isn't that easier than using a cookie? At least for now. Certainly if we get to where non members can customize, maybe cookies are the way to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For example, you won't be able to (sometime probably within a week) be able to read news at www.lugnet.com anymore -- the only reason you still can now is just for backward compatibility and a gentle switchover. Those old URLs (now deprecated) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (Which isn't to rule out the possibility of customization -- only that that URL is the homepage and other top-level subdomain URLs aren't homepages even though they're top page. If you take my meaning!) --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, there aren't two homepages. If you look at the icons at the top of the news site, one is called "Home" and goes to (URL) and the other is called "News" and goes to (URL). The former is the LUGNET homepage and the latter is the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rather than having 2 homepages, is there no easy way to have a cookie or some such thing, allow users to choose/design their own homepage? Scott A (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Ooook -- eeep -- opppp -- orkkk -- red flag alert! (...) Egad! What a terrible, horrible, rotten thing to say! How can you truly mean that? I submit to you that there is no such thing as a bad LEGO MOC builder, just as there is no such thing as a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.admin.general)
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I hate replying to my own post but I am going to do it here to summarize. This is what lugnet is all about to me right here. People communicating with a manner of courtesy in an open environment. I asked for feed back on my idea and I thank (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OMG, you said exactly what I was thinking! Serves me right for not reading ahead...OK, well, ignore my other post. --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm...that would work if you were posting to only one newsgroup and not crossposting. If you wanted crossposting, it would have to have multiple drop-down list-boxes. Using JavaScript, multiple list-boxes could be filled from a single data (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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If you used to watch a certain morning channel until some time ago, Agro was the co-host and puppet on a TV show which ran cartoons with this puppet and his sidekick/volunteer from the audience joining in. Somewhat wild in places, goofy in others, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Looks great but I really miss seeing an easy link to "traffic". This is what I first click on every time I visit LUGNET. (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But it's an issue which comes up (naturally) from time to time -- and came up in RTL several times -- and it *IS* related to LEGO. Anything related to LEGO has a place here. On the one hand, I agree that it doesn't have a terribly big place in (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Always good advice! Yes! (...) IMO, no debate here deserves to die so long as people are still being calm and principled and the debate is taking place in the most appropriate group (often .off-topic.debate). The .off-topic.debate are is _for_ (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's often used in place of 'aggression' or 'aggressive'. Seems to fit this discussion... -Adam 8^D (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh. Meeee toooo. (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What is "agro"? (...) FWIW, I haven't noticed any recent changes -- other than the usual flare-ups of debates that happen from time to time. Sometimes they seem like changes because they take things by storm, but they've been here since day 1 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) am (...) It is very distructive, and I found that I was thinking about it all the time, and I decided to drop it. It is a healthy move, IMO. I rather discuss LEGO items more than anything. (...) but (...) won't (...) age (...) its (...) Yes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:010e01c006fd$12...8d0@SES... (...) civil (...) isn't (...) a (...) Yeah. I did that about a year and a half ago and it made a difference. Though o-t.debate is somehwat necessary, I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Help me out here- I've been seeing a lot of people talking about an "increased level of tension" on Lugnet lately, but I guess I don't see it. I know there were two very controversial threads in the past week/week-and-a-half... namely, the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) in (...) for (...) I have found that since I have stopped going into off.topic.debate, I am a lot calmer, and seem to relax a lot more. : ) I think healthy discussion is fine, especially since the brick is a good chunk of life, but I try to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8pj4h5.nhe.....bu.edu... (...) to (...) Understood, its ok. (...) nicer (...) I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. I just think that this might be good for improved communication. But yes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm sorry; I didn't mean to give you a case in point. However, I do disagree with you. Rather than saying that we should be nicer to younger people, I think it'd be better for everyone to be more civil in general. People *do* have the ability (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:39997771.9E15C9...rve.com... (...) Unfortunately, I think you got lost in the 'Its really late and my brain is fried' void. ;) Sorry bout that! -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8piho1.f4u.....bu.edu... (...) has (...) You should make the attempt to understand what I'm saying, versus trying to pick an argument. I said _general_ - obviously meaning that we're not (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Rick Kujawa" <spacerocks@iname.com> wrote in message news:FzCEw0.K70@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) menus? I (...) IMHO I don't think a pulldown/selection field is a good option. There are too many newsgroups to make a selection box more (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Whatever happened to us poor 35-45 year olds? Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, With the proliferation of newsgroups on Lugnet; as a means to simplify posting messages to the proper newsgroup(s), would it be possible to make both the Newsgroups and Followup-To fields on the message window be pull down menus? I can (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Looks very nice! mark (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) setup page on either www.lugnet.com or news.lugnet.com. Either location would be fine, imo. You could also put a posting setup icon where the traffic, new post, and sign-in icons are located... --Bram (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Other than RTL, all the other newsgroups I read are work related, but they are all fine. LUGNET is the only one with agro I read. Although, I did used to be on a Ian Banks mailing list thing, and that was pretty bad. I often wonder if LUGNET (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Please delete message: (URL) how does one delete their own message? -John (URL) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Compared to Usenet, it's a pretty friendly place, actually. I'm not saying that it couldn't be better, of course. (...) [above lines compressed into one] (...) Wait a sec -- in a recent huge flamefest, wasn't it widely held that age has (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd and Suzanne, I like the look and "feel" of the new homepage. It is very concise and professional looking. PS The "Terms of Use" link on the page before posting is broken. Rick (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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We are pleased to announce a new LUGNET homepage: (URL) hope that you find it refreshing and that new visitors will find it friendly and inviting. If you miss the old homepage, simply look for it at its new location: (URL) thanks to everyone who (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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Ii apologize if I am doing the wrong thing by posting this here, but could this message be deleted? (URL) from me, and I decided to change the message a bit after I hit the submit button. I hit STOP, but it loaded anyways. Again, I apologize for (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Michael Perri" <zerog270@aol.com> wrote in message news:FzBK0r.462@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) read (...) they (...) please (...) tough (...) they (...) racial (...) about (...) what (...) I've noticed, and so has everyone else I've spoken with, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I am very new to this part of lugnet but I have found a small problem that has received my attention. Anytime I know someone that has found a problem all that I will ask is give a possible solution with it. I wonder if this might be one of those (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, that makes sense. It's only accessing one server there once the image is cached, and then it gives you a large image file. (...) That's totally bizarre too. Another redirection script on a completely different site, presumably doing (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) the first time it was this fast. Multiple times didn't improve the speed at all. (...) the delay. I didn't get a delay with mimg.cgi, (the first link) though. By the way, how did you get those long urls to not split across lines? -- David (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it's specifically the multiple ":" characters. RFC 1738 mentions ":" as a reserved character -- that is, when it occurs in the scheme-specific part of a URL (URLs being <scheme>:<scheme-spe...fic-part>, of course) it should *only* be (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A-HA! OK, we're getting closer! Could you try the links contained in this article -- (URL) the last indented one which bounces to www.yahoo.com)? If that shows no delay for you under MSIE, then it's probably a good bet that the multiple (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Consistent across platforms using both IE 5.01 and IE 5.5. I did notice that using Navigator 4.08 on NT 4 showed now delay at all. So this is at least partially a problem with IE, which is not much of a surprise, but then again, IE is the only (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, good, then this has nothing to do with jump.cgi per se (not that I thought it did, but it's better to be sure just in case). You're seeing the same thing from a different redirector. (The display.cgi script simply picks apart the ng name (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I just tried this with IE 5.5 on Win95. No delays. (This is from home.) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can't help you there, I only have MSIE. (...) I did a screen capture of #2; you'll find it located temporarily at (URL) if you want. -- David Schilling (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I can't make his second message stay as a "read" post. Help!!!!!! Rose Shiri Dori wrote in message ... (...) duplicates. (...) and (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nah. I'm a cynic (wanna see my ID card?), and I don't think this is the case. Steve (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A link would help him more, I'd bet... (URL)I'm not sure how useful the numbers (if they are unique to (...) They aren't. <smile>... there're 4853s in lugnet.general, .market.shopping, .castle, .trains, etc... -Shiri (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I guess I should say that these messages were posted in .market.shopping and CC to .loc.us.wa. I'm not sure how useful the numbers (if they are unique to all newsgroups or to a particular newsgroup) are without the newsgroups. thanks again. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd- Would you delete one of my double post. Post #4854 or #4853 are duplicates. Thanks -mark (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm no fan of jump.cgi for my own reasons (just because it considers itself it's own link- so it always looks unfollowed, even if the page you'll end up at by following it is one you've been to before, until you follow the jump.cgi link). But (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, that it soooo freaking bizarre. And it's consistent? Must be something deeper and stranger going on here. (...) Would it be possible to make a screen shot of it and write down the exact text? If it's putting in underscores, that's very (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm on a 2Mb/sec frame-relay link. I don't see any problem from here (Italy). Same delay as before (without jump.cgi). No problem also with a 56Kbit/sec dial-up to a local ISP (Tiscalinet). It doesn't look like a routing problem, maybe a browser-OS (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I see no problem either at home or at work. At home, I've got SDSL at 768, and at work there's an amazingly fast connection (think it's currently dual 45Mbit to the general internet). This is with either Mozilla (nightly) or Netscape 4.7x (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) back (...) Just tried it here at work. Our largest single pipe to the commodity internet is a DS-3 through Qwest and that's the link I'm tracing from me to you (actually it drops into Sprint to get to Pair). Same delay time - up to 4 seconds. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) back (...) I have a 768 DSL connection, and I also get a 4 to 5 second delay. I've seen this a lot recently as well, but haven't mentioned it because I wanted to see what types of links do this. (...) On my computer (with IE 5.5) most of the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That is soooo weird. The jump.cgi script runs inside of 1/100 second. On ISDN, you really shouldn't notice more than 1/10 extra added time. Anyone else seeing this strange behavior? BTW, what text shows in your browser's status window while (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 128k ISDN. I've tried loading the same page a few times - one with just a single 1.3k image on it and there is a noticable delay between hitting the link then being forwarded to the target URL. The image itself is in my cache and should be (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's very strange. What kind of net connection are you on? Even on a modem, it shouldn't add more than 1/2 second. The jump.cgi script itself runs in the blink of an eye. --Todd (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If so it was bad when I originally posted the message and bad again when I posted to this thread - some hour or two later. The delay isn't huge, but it is there. (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't notice any such delay. Maybe you just hit the server at a bad time? (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do you find the delay (I've found it to be quite noticable) to be acceptable? It seems to be adding somewhere between 2-3 seconds onto the process of jumping to the intended URL. Dealing with that once isn't much of an issue, but as I noticed (...) (26 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd is a Geek. He likes stats. :) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Steve, I'm sorry that the preview page is causing you trouble -- it's something I know about and intend to fix by making something that prevents double- posting from the same form. There isn't currently a way to cancel messages via the web (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) No problems that I'm aware of, no. (...) It's to analyze what links get clicked and from where (which page). It's something that can potentially be reported or tabulated for link listings, etc. (see Patrick Delahanty's site listings[1], for (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Argh - I use the preview and page-back function to ensure my msgs. are OK, and TWICE now I've wound up with the same msgs. posted twice. However, I can find no way to delete my message and clean up this error. I'm less concerned that it's occuring (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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Todd, What is the purpose of jump.cgi? Was there any problem with external links that prompted this? Or is is simply to track what links get clikced by who and how often? If that data was useful for LUGNET (i.e. helps you raise money etc.) then I (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks!, It just that from the UK sending payment abroad is not a simple as sending a cheque in the post( Or is it? I seem to remember something about needing to arrange it through my bank?) Anyhow, I need to become a Lugnet member in order to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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HI, I was wondering if I could be added to the list of pages in the mecha area, if how can I be added in later? Heres my site address: (URL) Please take a look and tell if im worthy of being on the mecha list. -Later John Aronson (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You mean set 5220 "Styling pack" as shown in the second catalogue for 2000 in Australia? It will ONLY be available from: (URL) will 5218, 5219, 5221, and 5222, according to the catalogue. [I'll get the scans of these sets up tonight.] This (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One such example would be the Y-Wing+TIE set featuring Darth Vader on the box cover. It was the only source for that figure for over a year until the figure sets came out. The number of Y-Wing set sold would be greatly reduced if the figure (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No such decision yet. The DeCSS case is in progress right now, and those of us who care about freedom of speech and the web in general sure hope it'll come down the other way. In fact, an important question in that case is whether source code (...) (26 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You will have to consult an attorney specializing in Intellectual Property or ask LEGO and trust what they say back. (...) It may be and it may not be. Intellectual Property case law is changing every day. Months ago, it was not illegal to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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